Seven years have passed between The publication of Ridley Scott's "stranger" in 1979 And the arrival of Jameseshes Cameron's "Aliens" action in 1986. At that time, while the new generation of science-fiction films captured Moviegoers's imaginations, another major media media was taking place at home in the world of video games. Nintendo has published Famikom in Japan, and by '86 he managed to the United States, revolutionizing the domestic games market with a series of many influential titles.

You know the names: "Super Mario Bros.", "The Zelda Legend" and just slightly lower on the hierarchy of fame, a game called "Metroid", which has caused its mass popular franchise that is still going strong by day. Where most of the other big games on the first side of Nintendo took place in fantastic areas or versions of the real world, Metroid put players in the highly advanced spacecraft of the intergalactic sales hunter Samus Aran. Hence, it follows the character to the wilderness of Zebes on a mission to destroy the most dangerous species of foreign predators in the galaxy: the metroids of the same name.

If it sounds a lot like "strangers", it's no coincidence. Metroid took its share of direct inspiration from Scott's original masterpiece in 1979, from the premise of a hyper-violent alliances' race to bio-mechanical aesthetics of HR Giger. "Ever since I made my first Metroid game, I was influenced by films like" Alien ", as the director and co-creator of the Yoshio Sakamoto explained in an interview in 2021 Famitu (translated from Japanese). "The worldwide view of the HR Giger organic design, accentuated by mechanical elements, is also the main theme of Metroid.

Once you know that Metroid was directly inspired by Alien, you will start noticing all kinds of small parallels. First and foremost, putting a female protagonist in a big action game was not so common at the time, and while there is nothing I can find to prove that Samus's sex was explicitly inspired by Reliable Weaver, Ellen Ripley, a quick look at her great, curly 8-bit hair. "We were on our way through development processes when one of the staff members said," Hey, wouldn't it be cool if it turned out that this person in the lawsuit was a woman? " IGN In 2004.

The subway themselves, while they are very different in the appearance of Xenomorphs of the franchise "alien"Fill in essentially the same role-super-transformer discovered in the far range of space-that-associated foreigners-which is a threat to the whole galaxy. You could even claim that Metroid predicted that some of the Oreb's Scott would eventually bring him to the property with his films "Prometheus" and "Alien: Testament". In fact, the first game "Metroid" introduced the ancient breed of bird-like, bioengineering chozo as metro views, similar to the role played by engineers in those films.

There are smaller details. Is it a coincidence that Ridley, the massive space dragon who killed Samus' parents and serves as her malfunction during the match, bears the same name as Ridley Scott? Or that the biomechanical supercomputer Antagonist in the first match, Mother Brain, is one word to have the same name as the mother's computer on Nostromo's ship?

"All team members were affected by HR Giger's design work," Sakamoto told Retro Gamer in 2009 (through Geck's day), "And I think they were aware that such designs would be a good match for the Metroid World we were already leading."

Cinematic inspirations and the unique setting of the Metroid Games have long made the main contender to adapt to a large screen, but unfortunately, all previous efforts to produce a Metroid movie have failed to follow. Was made a real effort in the early 2000s, with Back when Johnon Wu was attached to directed live film "Metroid". However, creative disagreements between Nintendo and those involved in the film's project have led to long stalls in planning, and all the work is eventually annoyed.

It all happened at a time when Nintendo was particularly protected by its main properties-understandable anxiety, given the absolute disaster that was live-action in 1993 Super Mario Bros.. movie. These days, however, the company has returned to the Chinese arena with great success. The animated film "Super Mario Bros." in 2023 was a huge hitand Nintendo follows that with a Adaptation of the movie "Zelda Legend" Currently it is set to appear in theaters on May 7, 2027.

Can the whole recent movement lead to Metroid fans finally get the big screen adventure waiting for them? It is certainly possible. Unfortunately, Metroid is not as popular these days as "Mario" and "Zelda", but with a big new entrance to the property "," Metroid Premier 4: Outside ", set to be released in the immediate future, interest could again increase. If the film happens, it will surely be more friendly to the family than "foreign" movies. At the same time, it would be impossible to adapt to the games and not bring some of the same DNA.